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by ls612 1 hour ago
Why would the scientific computing people want to tip their hand? It’s an open secret that the main point of these mammoth FP64 compute machines is to simulate nuclear weapons detonations to comply with the CTBT you’d think that crowd would really not be fans of broadcasting their capabilities.
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In adversarial scenarios, there are varying strategies in communicating one's capabilities, just as one might do in a poker game.

Sometimes you want to show off what you can do to dissuade others from fucking with you. Sometimes you want to undersell your capabilities to hide your true ability. Sometimes you want others to think you are underselling your capabilities when you are actually at a disadvantage.